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Deep learning (DL) has attracted wide attention and has been widely deployed in recent years. As a result, more and more research efforts have been dedicated to testing DL libraries and frameworks. However, existing work largely overlooked…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chenyuan Yang , Yinlin Deng , Jiayi Yao , Yuxing Tu , Hanchi Li , Lingming Zhang

Rootkits are among the most elusive types of malware, capable of bypassing traditional static analysis methods due to their metamorphic behavior. Signature-based detection techniques struggle against these threats, necessitating a shift…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Paras Ghodeshwar , Sandeep K Shukla , Anand Handa , Nitesh Kumar

Fuzzing is one of the most popular and widely used techniques to find vulnerabilities in any application. Fuzzers are fast enough, but they still spend a good portion of time to restart a crashed application and then fuzz it from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Prashant Singh Chouhan , Gregory Price , Gene Cooperman

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Coverage-based greybox fuzzing (CGF) has been approved to be effective in finding security vulnerabilities. Seed scheduling, the process of selecting an input as the seed from the seed pool for the next fuzzing iteration, plays a central…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yiru Zhao , Xiaoke Wang , Lei Zhao , Yueqiang Cheng , Heng Yin

Dynamic symbolic execution is a widely used technique for automated software testing, designed for execution paths exploration and program errors detection. A hybrid approach has recently become widespread, when the main goal of symbolic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Daniil Kuts

A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ian Hardgrove , John D. Hastings

Exponential growth in embedded systems is driving the research imperative to develop fuzzers to automate firmware testing to uncover software bugs and security vulnerabilities. But, employing fuzzing techniques in this context present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Damith C. Ranasinghe

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Although Rust ensures memory safety by default, it also permits the use of unsafe code, which can introduce memory safety vulnerabilities if misused. Unfortunately, existing tools for detecting memory bugs in Rust typically exhibit limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Georgios Androutsopoulos , Antonio Bianchi

Gray-box fuzzing is widely used for testing embedded systems (ESes). State-of-the-art (SOTA) gray-box fuzzers test ES firmware in fully emulated environments without real peripherals. They emulate missing peripherals to achieve decent code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wei-Lun Huang , Kang G. Shin

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has become essential to secure inter-domain routing. Despite its critical role, RPKI software remains largely untested beyond shallow parsing. Existing fuzzers, like AFL++ or libFuzzer, do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are gaining attention in the cryptography community because of the ability to efficiently harness the intrinsic variability in the manufacturing process. However, this means that they are noisy devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Xinhui Lai , Maksim Jenihhin , Georgios Selimis , Sven Goossens , Roel Maes , Kolin Paul

Software developers frequently use the system shell to perform configuration management tasks. Unfortunately, the shell does not scale well to large systems, and configuration management tools like Ansible are more difficult to learn. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Eric Horton , Chris Parnin

Simulation-based testing is essential for evaluating the safety of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs). Comprehensive evaluation requires testing across diverse scenarios that can trigger various types of violations under different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenbing Tang , Mingfei Cheng , Renzhi Wang , Yuan Zhou , Chengwei Liu , Yang Liu , Zuohua Ding

Fuzzy controllers are efficient and interpretable system controllers for continuous state and action spaces. To date, such controllers have been constructed manually or trained automatically either using expert-generated problem-specific…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Daniel Hein , Alexander Hentschel , Thomas Runkler , Steffen Udluft

Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

High-quality mathematical and logical datasets with verifiable answers are essential for strengthening the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While recent data augmentation techniques have facilitated the creation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kai Xiong , Yanwei Huang , Rongjunchen Zhang , Kun Chen , Haipang Wu , Yingcai Wu

Mutation-based fuzzing typically uses an initial set of non-crashing seed inputs (a corpus) from which to generate new inputs by mutation. A corpus of potential seeds will often contain thousands of similar inputs. This lack of diversity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera , Hendra Gunadi , Liam Hayes , Shane Magrath , Felix Friedlander , Maggi Sebastian , Michael Norrish , Antony L. Hosking

Fuzzing is an important method to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Despite considerable progress in this area in the past years, measuring and comparing the effectiveness of fuzzers is still an open research question. In software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Philipp Görz , Björn Mathis , Keno Hassler , Emre Güler , Thorsten Holz , Andreas Zeller , Rahul Gopinath